[MGNLUI-3142] Improve usability for template and component selection Created: 09/Sep/14 Updated: 11/Sep/14 Resolved: 10/Sep/14 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Magnolia UI |
| Component/s: | dialogs, page editor, pages app |
| Affects Version/s: | 5.3.2 |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | Improvement | Priority: | Major |
| Reporter: | Lars Fischer | Assignee: | Unassigned |
| Resolution: | Won't Fix | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | usability, ux | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Time Spent: | Not Specified | ||
| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
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There have been complaints about the usability of the template/component selection dialogs. These are some inspirations on what could be improved:
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| Comment by Andreas Weder [ 10/Sep/14 ] |
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I agree that selecting components in the page editor as well as templates when creating a new page could be much improved. I also agree with your suggestions as to what could be improved. There's actually some older design work that covers all the brief use cases you've mentioned:
These designs are part of a larger flow defining how a new page and a new component are added.
We'd have to revisit these designs before starting any implementation, though, as this work was done in a different context. In essence, though, I roughly recall that the deduced UI would be quite flexible and capable of simplifying its appearance and behavior if only few templates were available, but would still scale up for more complex set ups with dozens of different templates. I'd certainly take it as a starting point for any new work. |
| Comment by Lars Fischer [ 10/Sep/14 ] |
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We don't see any chance this will be integrated in the near future. Once there is more demand for these improvements we might come back to this topic. |